Outlook 2007 Offenders - SellingPower.com

Another newsletter focused on a b-to-b audience, SellingPower.com. This newsletter is focused at the large community of slackers…I mean salespeople. Most all salespeople I know use Outlook and will migrate when their company tells them to.

You will start to see a running theme of issues related to Outlook 2007.

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After examining the HTML, here’s why Outlook 2007 rendered the email like this:

- No set width for email content
- All css styles are referenced in the of document
- Positioning of elements (div) - Menu doesn’t display correctly b/c it uses an unsupported style: position

This gets back to the new Outlook 2007 motto - Old School Table Layouts.

Keep an eye out for this new weekly feature - Outlook 07 Offenders.

Thanks to Return on Subscriber for this great article.

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